Stochastic charging as transport mechanism of Saturn's ring rain
Abstract
Recent studies have found, that there is a ring rain onto Saturn: Particles that originate in Saturn's rings and 'fall' along magnetic field lines into the planet's atmosphere. Using e study, whether a successive on- and off-hopping of charge carriers, i.e. quantised charging processes, can act as a transport mechanism to remove nano-particles from the rings and add them to the ring rain.
- Publication:
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019EPSC...13.1704S